Larry Wall Quotes
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
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I was a huge fan of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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I have always joked that I have three mothers. I couldn't get away with anything as a kid. Whether I got a bad mark or was told off, it would always end up getting back to my parents.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
